Health News COVID-19 health regulations to be gazetted into laws Courtesy Adaderana The Minister of Health Pavithra Wanniarachchi says that steps will be taken to gazette the recommendations issued by the Ministry of Health for the control of COVID-19 into a law. The Minister stated that the new laws regarding health regulations will be published […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Attorney General has summoned the Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and its Chief Investigating Officer. This is over the release of Riyaj Bathiudeen, MP Rishad Bathiudeen’s brother, after being under arrest in connection with the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks. The officers have also been directed to […]

Courtesy Adaderana Another 60 persons from the Minuwangoda coronavirus cluster have tested positive for the virus, stated Army Commander Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva. Among them, 48 have been detected from the Sri Lanka Army-operated quarantine centers. The remaining 12 patients are close contacts of the Minuwangoda apparel factory workers. So, a total of 121 COVID-19 […]

Courtesy Hiru News The person who pretended to be a van driver at the white van news conference which caused a great deal of controversy during the last government had called a press conference today. He said that he was pressurized by former Minister Rajitha Senaratne regarding the case related to that incident. He has […]

Courtesy Hiru News Army Intelligence Officer Kanishka Gunaratne says that some officers of the CID had intimidated him and tried to obtain false evidence. This was while giving evidence for the first time before the Presidential Commission Investigating Political Victimization

By Kelum Bandara Courtesy Daily Mirror Sri Lanka and China also signed an agreement for a grant of 600 million RMB grant (Rs.16.5 billion) for livelihood development in the island. Colombo, October 10: China responded positively to Sri Lanka’s request to cooperate in the provision of a vaccine being developed by it against COVID-19, a […]

By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Mirror From the 16 th. to the 18 th.,Century, Jesus could be easily adopted as one of the Hindu gods like Vishnu and Natha and looked upon as a benevolent being. Virgin Mary could be absorbed as Pattini, Prof. Gananath Obeyesekere points out. Under the Sinhala Kings, Kandy showed a remarkable degree of […]

By Sugeeswara Senadhira Courtesy Newsin.asia Opposition politicos and irresponsible social media blatantly misinterpreted police and court decisions on the release of Riaj Bathiudeen, brother controversial former Minister Rishad Bathiudeen, says Sugeeswara Senadhidra Colombo October 9 (Daily News): Sri Lanka’s Opposition politicians are ready to grab any weapon to attack the government as they have run […]

Courtesy Newsin.Asia The Lankan President said he will prove that Hambantota port is not a debt trap laid by China but is a development project with high potential Colombo, October 9: Yang Jiechi, a member of the Chinese Communist Party’s Politburo and a former Foreign Minister, told Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa here on Friday, […]

Courtesy Daily Mirror Labour Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva has directed the Labour Commissioner to immediately submit him a report regarding allegations levelled by several trade unions against the Brandix management that the company had allegedly failed to follow safety and health protocols. Minister de Silva said he informed the trade unions to file a […]

Courtesy Daily Mirror The Public Health Inspectors Union of Sri Lanka claims that none of their members ever supervised any of those who were brought down from India in repatriation flights chartered by Brandix Apparel Ltd. who claim to have subjected all returnees to a 14 day self-quarantine. Secretary, Public Health Inspectors Union (PHIU), M. […]

Courtesy Ada Derana Eleven employees of another apparel factory in the Katunayake Export Processing Zone (EPZ) have tested positive for Covid-19, the Administrative Public Health Inspector at the Health Medical Officer’s office in Seeduwa, Mr Suresh Kumara said. It is reported that more employees of the apparel factory in question were referred to PCR tests […]

Courtesy AdaDerana Two workers of the Minuwangoda apparel factory and 101 close contacts of factory workers have tested positive for the virus. This increases the total positive cases from the Minuwangoda Covid-19 cluster to 1,186.

KAMALIKA PIERIS Revised 13.10.20  Buddha wanted to spread his ideas   beyond the locality he lived in, and he sent sixty disciples in all directions. This was the start of Buddhist missionary work. 300 years later Emperor Dharmasoka (268 – 232 BC) took over the missionary task. He sent Buddhist missionaries to Syria, Macedonia, Cyrene, Epirus, […]

By Rohana R. Wasala While surfing the net this morning (October 6) I saw a flash of a You Tube video purportedly uploaded by Niroshan Premaratne, former UPFA Matara District MP (2015-20) from the Wimal Weerawansa-led Jatika Nidahas Peramuna. He failed to enter parliament in the general  election held on August 5 this year. It […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE Minister Vasudeva Nanayakkara  (V) expressed views openly against Mr Gotabaya Rajapakse seeking nomination for the Presidency.  His main argument at that time was  that the democracy will be threatened if military men occupy top roles in the country.  Minister Wimal Weerawansa (W) was in the forefront to bring the military […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය හිටපු චීන විදේශ අමාත්‍ය සහ වත්මන් කොමියුනිස්ට් පක්ෂ දේශපාලන කාර්යාංශයේ සාමාජික යැංග් ජියේචී (Yang Jiechi) මැතිතුමාගේ නායකත්වයෙන් යුත් ඉහළ පෙළේ චීන දූත පිරිස අද 2020.10.09 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමන් හමු වූහ. ගෝලීය කොරෝනා වසංගතයෙන් අනතුරුව චීන රාජ්‍ය තාන්ත්‍රික දූත පිරිසක් දකුණු ආසියානු කලාපයේ සංචාරයේ නිරත වන ප්‍රථම අවස්ථාව […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය පාස්කු දිනයට අනුබල දීම මත සැකපිට අත්අඩංගුවට ගත්, හිටපු අමාත්‍ය රිෂාඩ් බදියුදීන් මහතාගේ සහෝදරයෙක් වන රියාජ් බදියුදීන් අපරාධ පරීක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව විසින් අත්තනෝමතික ලෙස නිදහස් කිරීමට එරෙහිව ආණ්ඩු පක්ෂයේ මන්ත්‍රීවරුන් 100 දෙනෙකුගේ අත්සනින් යුත් ලිපියක් අතිගරු ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්‍ෂ මැතිතුමාට සහ ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමාට අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී අද දින (2020.10.09) බාර දෙන […]

Courtesy Xinhua COLOMBO, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) — Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa on Friday separately met with visiting senior Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi and the two sides discussed closer cooperation between their countries. Yang, a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror India has no moral right to ask for the fully implementation of the 13th amendment to the Constitution, Local Government and Provincial Councils Minister Sarath Weerasekera told Parliament yesterday. Participating in a debate at the time of adjournment of the House on foreign agreements of Sri Lanka, the Minister said that […]

Ajith Siriwardana and Yohan Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Opposition yesterday challenged Brandix Ltd. to reveal the list of its employees who were said to have returned from India on September 22 and the places where they underwent quarantine process. Chief Opposition Whip Lakshman Kiriella told Parliament that Brandix as a reputed apparel industry […]

Courtesy Adaderana The head of the high-level delegation from the People’s Republic of China, who is currently visiting Sri Lanka assures that China will continue to assist Sri Lanka for the success of the country’s development drive, the President’s Media Division said. The present status of bilateral relations between China and Sri Lanka is highly […]

Courtesy Hiru News UPDATE: 14 Covid-19 positive cases reported. 01 worker from the Minuwangoda Brandix garment factory & 13 close contacts of the workers. Therefore, 30 coronavirus positive cases have been reported today. Minuwangoda Brandix Corona cluster has increased to 1080. The total cases in the country has now increased to 4,523. The reported cases of […]

Courtesy Hiru News Former Chairman of the Fisheries Harbor Corporation Upali Liyanage stated that when Rajitha Senaratne was the Minister of Fisheries, he was pressured to appoint former MP Hirunika Premachandra as the Legal Assistant of the Corporation.

Courtesy Hiru News A letter signed by 100 Govt MPs’ submitted to the President, protesting against releasing of MP Rishad Bathiutheen’s brother Riyaj Bathiutheen.

Courtesy  Hiru News With the spread of the corona cluster reported from the Brandix garment factory in Minuwangoda, it was confirmed today that three employees of three other factories in the Katunayake Investment Zone have been infected with the coronavirus. The Board of Investment stated that these covid-19 infections have been reported from leading factories. […]

When the author is an attendee of UNSC Resolution 1373 proscribed LTTE front TGTE’s 9thsitting of a ‘utopian Parliament’ in Boston, USA from 18-20 May, 2018there is little that needs to be said about her anti-Sri Lankan article. However, let us address her harangue. Author claims LTTE was decisively defeated at the cost of ‘tens […]

The world was in for a shock with the dawning of 2020. An unknown virus hit first China and spread across the world like wildfire. Since the first death in January 2020 as of 7thOctober 2020 (10 months) the death toll worldwide is over 1million (1,060,443). No one still knows how the virus came about […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS This essay is a preliminary to the study of the modern Sinhala Buddhist civilization of Sri Lanka.  This essay draws attention to   those aspects of Asia’s Buddhist civilization, which are not well known and have not received much attention in Sri Lanka. Buddhism, which originated in north India in the 6th century BC, […]